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• Treasure in the Sierras
  There's no better place to lay down fresh tracks in the spring than the Sierras east of Yosemite...
  
  
• Deflowering the Chief
  Once thought impossible to ski, a bold group of tele-skiers conquered Mt. Greylock's massive rockslide...
  
  
• Into the Heart of Quetico
  For a rugged Canadian winter experience, Quetico Provincial Park can't be beat...
  
  
• Montana Soul Turns
  Let Montana's Big Mountain open your mind and light your thighs on fire...
  
  
• Pilgrimage to the White Valley
  Chamonix's Vallee Blanche is the world's most famous lift-accessed ski descent, and there's a good reason why...
  
  
• The Sweet Spot
  Pro skier Alison Gannett breaks it down, "On my first run, I find myself unconnected to my feet, practically unable to make a turn..."
  
  
• Nurture Your Skis
  Don't let a great start to the season be ruined by poorly maintained skis and bindings. Here's some tips on how to take care of 'em...
  
  
• Tune Up your Planks
  Don't let a perfect day on the mountain be ruined by a pair of dull, unwaxed skis. Spend the cash for the "full crystal glide" to get those babies back into showroom condition...
  
  
• Chugach Mountain Festival
  The Chugach Mountain Festival came and went in April 2003. Over several days, the festival celebrated the Alaskan Freeskiing Championships, Alaskan Pipeline Raid, and the Chugach Mountain Film Festival...
  
  
• Ladies Gear
  The continuing development of women's skis, snowboards, snowshoes and boots isn't just a fad or fashion. Women generally ski, ride and walk on snow better when their gear is women-specific.
  
  
• Fire Up Your Fitness
  The ski season is upon us and its time get those legs, lungs and trunks back into shape so you can huck and carve all winter long...
  
  
• NEW VIDZ: High Life
  Teton Gravity Research releases its latest ski and snowboard porn showcasing fat carves on impossibly steep faces. See the trailer.
  
  
• Dave "Swany" Swanwick
  Dave Swanwick checks in and shares with us his tales of great ski adventures from around the world, giving us inspiration to call in sick on powder days.
  
  
• Film Guide 2K
  Check out the freshest films to keep you going through the summer heat.
  
  
• Bombs Before Breakfast
  Dave Hahn drops in on his old job as a ski patroller in Taos, New Mexico.
  
  
• Avalanche Awareness
  You ducked the rope beyond the "Closed Area" signs. You just made a big mistake.
  
  
• First Descents in Siberia
  The Altai Ski/Snowboard expedition ventured into a remote area of northern Asia. Join MountainZone.com as it followed the team's attempt to descend Mt. Belukha, the Altai Range's highest peak.
  
  
• Movie Star Start
  Impress your friends and go Hollywood on the slopes with John Egan.
  
  
• Behind the K2 Factory Doors
  In 1961, on tiny Vashon Island in Washington's Puget Sound, two brothers named Kirschner decided to make a pair of fiberglass skis.
  
  
• Eaves... John Eaves
  Bond evaded villains by skiing the bobsled run in the film For Your Eyes Only. Roger Moore it wasn't, it was Eaves...John Eaves.
  
  
• The Wild, Wild Northwest
  If heli-skiing is beyond your budget, check out the footage these Zoners brought back after a day in Washington's North Cascades.
  
  
• Gravity Check
  First descents of remote peaks captured by filmmakers who combine work and play for the good life.
  
  
• Confessions of a Double Convert
  Would you trade your skis for a board? If you've ever been tempted, you may need a trip to Valle Nevado, Chile.
  
  
• Scot Schmidt Tells How
  to ski powder and crud in this column, from the master who knows. He's the living legend of the steep, white frontier.
  

  Competitions

• 2004 Molson Canadian Freeskiing Challenge
  At the Molson Canadian Freeskiing Challenge in the rugged Kootenay range, skiers rip the steeps to claim king of the mountain. Watch the stomach-churning vid...
  
  
• 2004 Canadian Freeskiing Champs
  The 2004 Canadian Freeskiing Champs recently hosted the sickest skiers on the planet, who hucked Whistler's treacherous backcountry bowls. Check out the jaw-dropping vid!
  
  
• 2002 Snowbird Freeskiing Nationals
  The US Nationals stop here in Snowbird is one of three premier events of the season.
  
  
• 2002 Molson Canadian Freeskiing Challenge
  Difficult, variable conditions plagued the Molson Canadian Freeskiing Challenge at Red Mountain. "The conditions are unsafe up there; the course is strewn with frozen death cookies and chicken heads...
  
  
• Rules of the White Room
  At the World Extremes in Valdez, Alaska, knee-deep powder tempted some of the world's best skiers away from runs so steep they'd make a window washer nervous.
  
  
• Red Bull Huckfest
  Skiers and snowboarders went for big air and style in Snowbird.
  
  
• Moseley & Plake
  Word from the winner and the judge of the Moseley Invitational.
  
  
• Connecting the Drops
  Video, stories, and photos from the rock gardens and buttresses of Diamond Bowl at Blackcomb, where skiers threaded their way across the most precipitous ridges.
  
  
• Heli Challenge
  World-class competitors found deep, dry southern powder at the Rip Curl Heli Challenge.
  
  

  ALPINE SKIING
  World Cup Racing

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• The Best of Tahoe
  Find out the best places to ski Tahoe when you're itchin' for steeps or when you've got the in-laws in tow, plus where to brag about your day at night...
  
  

  BACKCOUNTRY

  Skiing

• Martin Soderqvist Photo Gallery
  Ski photographer Martin Soderqvist shows us his extraordinary photos of backcountry skiing at its finest. Deep powder, clear blue skies, and phat turns...
  
  
• Heli-Skiing
  Seeking good snow in April in the coast mountains of British Columbia... it's big country and it's heli-skiing country.
  
  
• Keoki Flagg Photo Gallery
  You gotta see these heli-skiing photos from British Columbia.
  
  
• Hut-to-Hut
  Backcountry skiing in the Trophy Mountains of Canada.
  
  
• The Zen of Kick-and-Glide
  The trail meandered along the flats on the west side of the river, through open forests of pine and hemlock...
  
  
• Backcountry Randonnee
  How does endless powder minus the lift lines sound? Nope, we aren't talking about heli-skiing. With a bit more preparation than usual, you can alpine ski wherever you please.
  
  

• Thin White Lines
  Photo essays by Andrew McLean.
  
  

• Skiing Jove Peak
  "Rated 'advanced with high avalanche potential,' Jove Peak is one of those coveted ski tours that you do only when the conditions are right..."
  
  
• Yellowstone Traverse
  Look back through the updates of this backcountry ski expedition across Greater Yellowstone.
  
  
• The Minturn Mile
  "Sitting neck deep in the most rotten snow in the Rockies, the irrefutable truth was forced through my skull faster than the crud crammed down my pants..."
  
  
• Schussing Worm Flows
  "The image of myself as a sun-kissed and suave telemark skier was quickly extinguished..."
  
  
• Dave Hahn: Sheriff of Hunsiker Bowl
  You know Dave Hahn as many things. Peace officer isn't necessarily one of them. Kicking off his fourth year as a MountainZone.com columnist, Dave writes about his brush with law enforcement and its effect on his efforts as a member of the Taos Valley ski patrol.
  
  
• Skiing Fresh Tracks
  Stories of adventures on skis.
  
  

  TELEMARK SKIIING

• Powerful Grace: World Cup Telemark
  US Telemark Team members claimed top honors during World Cup Races in Big Mountain, Montana.
  
  
• Get Schooled in Telemark
  Beginning telemark tips from Utah's Jimmy Ludlow.
  
  
• Tele Bindings
  Choosing them can be a daunting task.
  
  
• Tele Bumps
  After 20 years, a lot of events tend to lose their magic, but not the Breckenridge Bump Buffet, in which 200 telemarkers converged to celebrate a free heel, free mind way of life.
  
  
• 1999 Telemark Skiing Season
  Who took the free heel cake? Here's the season at a glimpse.
  
  
• 1998 Telemark Skiing National Championships
  Big air and low turns from Whitefish, Montana. Watch the free heelers get down.
  
  
• 1998 Telemark Finals
  The telemark classic had everything: big air, fast GS and uphill grunts.
  
  

  SKI EXPEDITIONS

• Skiing Everest
  Two-time World Extreme Ski Champion Maegan Carney attempts what no American and no woman has ever done - climb the South Col route on Mt. Everest and then make a complete ski descent back to base camp.
  
  
• Cordillera Blanca Ski Expedition
  Led by Mountain Link guide Jake Norton, team members Porter Fox, Bissell Hazen, Wade McKoy and Moss Patterson climbed and skied two peaks in Peru's Ishinca Valley.
  
  
• Cordillera Photos
  Awe inspiring photos from the mountains of Peru and the Cordillera Blanca ski expedition...
  
  
• Antarctica Photos
  Stephen Koch brought back some amazing shots from the 1999 Antarctica Ski & Snowboard Expedition.
  
  
• 2000 Antarctic Peninsula Ski/Snowboard Expedition
  Members of the Antarctic Peninsula Climb and Ski/Snowboard Expedition cruised from Ushuaia, Argentina, aboard a Russian research vessel (with an ice-hardened hull) to the wild and pristine western shore of the Antarctic Peninsula.
  
  
• 1999 Antarctica Ski & Snowboard Expedition
  This expedition successfully climbed and descended Vinson Massif (16,076ft/4,897m), the highest peak in Antarctica. In addition, three team members: Doug Coombs, Mark Newcomb and Stephen Koch, made the first ski and snowboard descents of nearby Mt. Shinn.
  
  
• Altai Ski/Snowboard Expedition
  Scot Schmidt, Rob DesLauriers, Kasha Rigby were among those who climbed and descended Mt. Belukha in the remote Altai Mountains of Siberia.
  
  

  INTERVIEWS

• Skiing 8000m
  Telluride's Laura Bakos stood on the peak of 8201-meter Cho Oyu, then she clicked in and descended on skis.
  
  
• Hans Saari Tribute
  Ski mountaineer Andrew McLean pays tribute to his friend and fellow ski mountaineer Hans Saari who was killed in May 2001 while skiing in Chamonix...
  
  
• Carney Reflects on Everest
  After a recent failed attempt to become the first woman to ski off Everest, Carney reflects back on what happened on the mountain...
  
  
• Bill Johnson
  '84 Downhill Gold Medalist Bill Johnson returned to Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana, to mark the anniversary of his violent crash during his comeback attempt at the U.S. Nationals.
  
  
• Classic Interviews
  Check out these interviews!
  
  

• Outdoor Research Founder Ron Gregg Dies in avalanche.
  
• World Cup Skier Régine Cavagnoud dies.
  
  

• Alaska's Iditasport 100
  Retired endurance biker John Stamstad dons skis and jumps into the brutal 100-mile Iditasport Classic, facing 31 hours of the shocking reality of the Alaskan mountains, at times being blown backward by a -50 windchill.

• 2002
  "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part...."